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John Maynard

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I used to take photos of your band. One-time backup dancer for Girl Talk. Keeping people healthy and safe while they work. He/Him.

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John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2h

We are so strict with how the grandparents can (or mainly cannot) share pics online, only for one of them to use the "edit this with AI?" prompt in the FB chat group we use to send them pics.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 1d

DA: did you just arrive at McNamara terminal? But your flight is at Evans terminal!
Me: why can't you be normal and just number your terminals? And why do you have to take a shuttle bus to get from one to the other? Were they built in the 50s?
DA: No they were both built in the 2000s.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 1d

And add Roméo et Juliette to the list of stories with conflicts that would be solved with a smart phone. Do I hear a lark? No, it's a nightingale.

I've got an app that will tell you exactly what bird was making that call.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't like the change to the ending. I liked the tragedy of them never seeing each other again - they're not consciously/alive together after their wedding night. But in the opera, she comes to after he poisons himself but before he dies, giving them one more melodramatic moment together.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 1d

I went to the opera last night to see Roméo et Juliette. It's really nice to see someone hone their craft and put decades into playing Romeo as a 45-year-old.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 1d

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2d

For the longest time the X-Men were lacking in African American characters. Yes there are black X-Men, but African (Storm) or Afro-Brazilian (Sunspot) or Australian Aborigine (Bishop) or Afro-Latino (Dr Celia Reyes) or Afro-Monegasque (Monet)

Prodigy and Darwin don't show up until the early 2000s.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2d

I've also wondered how a person in the marvel universe even knows who's a mutant and who isn't. I know some character have publicly known backstories, but I'm some guy in Iowa how do I know that the Hulk or Ant Man isn't a mutant? Or that Cyclops isn't a regular guy who invented laser glasses?

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I feel like the marvel mutants would make more sense as a separate continuity. The cool factor of the random guest appearances is overshadowed by what you mention - the fact that all of the non-mutant heroes regularly ignore the massive persecution of mutants.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2d

3) Even when they decided Wolverine was Australian?

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2d

Two time-travelling mutants with a distinguishing scar/tattoo over one eye who despite having mutant powers use guns a lot

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 2d

I wish the Illyana who died and the Illyana who we have now were two different characters. Because I think current Illyana is a lot of fun (and seems to never reference the legacy virus stuff). It cheapens/ignores her death, but I wouldn't ever want to give up the current iteration of Magik.

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kins @ Z'goktober @zoldafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

it's always shiden time

kai shiden edited over a tiktok meme, he is smiling with his hand in his hair. text reads "i bring a sort of 'we should all quite' vibe to White Base that EFF brass don't really like"

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 7d

Yet another reason to make Avenue Rd less than 4 lane. It's not a highway people live on it. Schools are on it

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 8d

Of course Burnside openly admis that cops let people drive WAY too fast on Avenue Rd

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 8d

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says when he used to do traffic enforcement on Avenue Road he wouldn't stop drivers unless they were doing 75 km/h or over.

"Maybe that was a little high," he admits. "A little high," agrees Gray.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 8d

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says when he used to do traffic enforcement on Avenue Road he wouldn't stop drivers unless they were doing 75 km/h or over.

"Maybe that was a little high," he admits. "A little high," agrees Gray.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 8d

Party leadership campaigns aren't about who the existing party likes as a leader. It's about who can bring in the most new members/funds

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 9d

Serious question: how do candidates raise funds to pay for the entry fee if they can't raise funds until they've applied? Is the payment due upfront or is there a window between applying and having to submit the fee?

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 10d

His full first name is Bradford

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 10d

Everything new is old again. Beaches councilor despised by his constituents decides that he should run for mayor is Tom Jacobek all over again.

Both managed to get around 1% of the vote when they ran for mayor. But Jacobek never came back for round 2!

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 10d

I was at the game yesterday didn't want to wait in the giant line for the j shop and none of the little satellite hat shops around the concourse had the white panel hat

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 14d

Younger than that, "gifted" almost always means privileged and ahead of their peers thanks to tutors, private daycare, etc, or just in the stream thanks to parental pressure

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 14d

When I went into the gifted stream around age 7, the class size grew after a few weeks. Years later mom let me know that there were the kids who tested well and got in, then a second wave of white doctor's/lawyer's kids who got in when their connected parents complained.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 15d

Automatic watches are an amazing feat of tiny engineering but whenever I have to update the date indicator I can never, never seem to land on the correct side of the AM/PM divide.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 28d

Or maybe that's the fantasy element. It's not the imperial Roman-like setting, or the leviathans, or the technology based on bio-engineering. It's the idea that our government, in the end, wants to protect us and keep us safe that's the real fantasy

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 28d

In 2025, seeing what the US looks like, what Russia looks like, what half of eastern Europe looks like, what China looks like, that idea rings hollow. Arguing government is benign or beneficial, especially in the face of corruption and extreme wealth, seems naive

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 28d

The book makes explicit the idea that bureaucracy might be ponderous and opaque but in in the end it has your best interests at heart. The army is there is to protect you from very real outside threats. The investigators have plans within plans to curb the worst excesses of corruption.

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 28d

I'm just finishing up the 2025 Hugo winning The Tainted Cup and as much as I like the idea of a elaborate mystery novel set in a well thought out fantasy setting, it has an overt thesis that troubles me: Imperial bureaucracy, specifically the military and policing arms of the government, are good

John Maynard @jmaynard.bsky.social · 28d

I can't wait for the 2020s version of Paul is dead/Avril is a clone.

Is anyone claiming that the guys in BTS who came back from military service super jacked are actually replacements and it took 2 years for the plastic surgery to heal?

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 28d

"La Panthère de Cartier", a 7-minute short film by Yasuhiro Aoki, Naoki Urasawa & Production IG for the opening of a new Cartier shop in Ginza (Tokyo).
Only available on LINE app.
miniapp.line.me/cartier/anime